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ATOM CONTROL--SOVIET RECORD

Russia is fighting for peace

in a world of warmongers,

Russia has demanded the con-

an

By Harold Bunting

Ominous words

agreement

on

5. There inust be a system of safeguards that were technically feasible, were capable of detecting violations, and would cause the

Good Morning

When somebody else le saying it, the Commos don't like the NO in UNO.

"In time of trial, what gives most comfort to a man?"

An acquittal,

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trol of atomic energy; the non- and presented a report expressing indispenable for the establish- | minimum interferenco in the life) Communist countries aro try-the opinion that "the veto should ment of such a control as would of member nations. ing to prevent it,

not apply to questions of conduct prevent an atomic armaments

8. There must be provision for So Tuts

of with regard to the regulations of race", the propaganda.

effective enforcement against Communism. It is the substance the international authority.",

The matter finally rests on

violators. of the Russian-inspired peace

decision of the General Assembly This fallure to agree 24554 petition which, it is claimed, pro-

On both approving a resolution, jointly

atomic

control and conventional presented by France and Canada, disarpament was reported to the 32312bably with truth, is being almed

by millions in every country In Then Mr. Gromyko produced calling for the continuance

General Assembly of the United the world.

a new plan. It was Introduced efforts to reach agreement and

Nations. What, then, are the facta? Hus with those ominous words. "The asking member-nations to accept It was in this Assembly that Russla made any proposals for creation within the frameworks a "limitation of their sovereignty Russia submitted her most the effective control of the atom of the Security Council..." of an to the extent necessity to are dramatic disarmament proposals. bomb Has she offered any sug-international control commission, atomie energy effectively",

Queen Elizabeth was always gestion that would make general It still kept the operation of Indistinguishable from this at-These were that the United States.

Britain, the Soviet Union, France, sending voyagers to sen. That's All news contributions to be disarmament possible.

the international authorly tightly tempt to secure

she was known 3A the addressed to Editor-in-Chier. The facts shall speak for them-In the grip of the Security Coun- the control of atomic energy, but and China should within a year why

cil and thus subject to the in-technically quite distinct from it reduce by one-third their existing Voyagin' Queen. Advertisements

Dusiness selves. und

The first detalled proposals for fluence of the velo

was the attempt to bring about land, naval, and air forces.

Was this a contribution to work communications should be ad-

controlling atomic energy were The Working Committee of the agreement for conventional dis-

pence? The answer must be "No"! Myrtle's married sister dresend to the Company CHINA

lold before the United Nations by United Nailona which had spent armament.

It atill maintained MAIL LTD.

the United States.

relative London saw the quotation, "The- nine months in trying to bring This was linked with the pro- They called for the creation of reconciliation between the Soviet posals to provide a United Nations strengths; it, still loft Russia mili- time is out of joint, and nuded:

uny "Not 10 international authority to and American plans now came to police force". Here again Soviet which would be entrusted "all these conclusions:

objections and counter propsals

and rpare-ribs." phases in the development and 1. The Soviet Plan would ron- can be seen as the cause of failure. use of atomle energy", including fine the control functions of the the following:

international authority merely to 1. The management, control periodical fospections...and ond ownership of all atomic the investigation of suspected

It is hardly necessary to detall ternational control body within accuracy and impartially in their these, since the position is suff- the framework of the Securlly work." cry activities potentially don-clandestine activities. gerous to world security.

2. The international authority elently indicated in the British Council. would be unable to enforce com- statement issued when the Con- That then is the history of de-ventional Disarmament Committee Russin's attitude towards the at- pliance either with its own cisions or with the provisions of too, abandoned Its work-this tempt of the United Nations to any International convention, and time after 18 months of searching secure agreement on these great could merely make representa for an agreement.

and grave issues. The British proposal said that} tions to the Security Council. In

Can it be said that she genuine- such a situation the position would be seriously aggravated by agreement depended on these six ly desired to reach effective

points:

agreement? That there was in Canselence is the still, small enabling the potential Here, then, was a plan for com- delays

1. All States must belong to any proposal she made any voleo that tells a financler where plete control. How did the Soviet aggressor Lo assemble

the disarmament system,

guarantee that never again would to draw the line. 2. Disarmament can be put into atomle weapons be made or used? meet it? They submitted counter-atomic weapons.

The Soviet 3. The

Union insists effect only in an atmosphere of Or was Mr. Bevin right when proposals in this progressive order that

1. The signing of an inter- th eren the

inadequate control International,confidence.

he stood before that General As-

"What a party! The. kavitation national agreement forbidding the system proposed cannot be estab- 3. International confidence de-sembly and declared:

fished until all atomic

sold I was to come round and production and use of weapons

weapons mands agreement on supplying based on atomic energy.

have been prohibited and exist- troops for the Security Counell, solemnity at my disposal: if the 2n the fourth and came round "This I must say with all the dine on the fourth, but I dined on on ntomic control convention, black fury, the incalculable dis-

INDIA'S FOOD PROBLEM

As a result of the scare conflict in caused by the Korea, and of drought and floods in some parts of India, hoarding of food and serious shortages in three Indian States have produced an emergency to which the Cen- tral Government is reacting as vigorously as Peking did, in the much greater crisis in China some months

ago Food is being rushed to de- ficit areas from the central pool and from surplus pro- vinces, and drastic measures are being taken to meet the situation.

The

1947

2. The power to control. in spect, and license all other atomie energy.

3. The fostering of the bene Acient use of atomic energy.

Counter-plan

1

to

further

Essential needs

tarily more powerful than other nation.

Tacked on this proposal were two famillar oner:

1. Prohibition of atomale wea pons.

"The U.N. eɔmmissicu is calling four reporters and correspondents the highest degree of

2. The establishment of an in-to show

Do they think they'll and four?

"I came here, with a purpose:" """To wit?" "Tu woo."

This marked the end of the and on a peace settlement with nster of atomle war, should fall on the fifth."

2. The destruction of all stocks ing stocks destroyed. of such weapons within three months of the signing of the attempt to secure agreement, The Germany and Japan.

upon us, one Power, by refusing Working Committee reported that 4. Effective disarmament must co-operation in the control and agreement.

inter-it felt it Impossible to continue limit arms to those indispensable development of these great new

"the full co- to International national atomic commission work- its work because

and forces for the beneft of humanity,

will alone be responsible."

3. The creation of an

ing under the direction of the operation of the Soviet Union is security. Security Council.

This last phrase is important~

and ominous. But before we con- sider them, let us see what Soviet plan amounted to.

the

pence

Views on occupied Japan

broken

"The heavy initial outlay wil be justified, he said, as the new quarters wilt

mean increased Inefciency."

That's worth il few extra dollars to anybody.

Wife: Here's a scientist trying

to prove that worms"think.

Husband: I think- Wife: Yours moy be on

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The essence of the plan Woo that the three steps should follow one another: the taking of the A remarkable book 'Kake- tences: "The spectacle of the country. Whether it likes it next step being conditional un the achievement of the one pro-American

mons," has appeared on the young and savage nation trying, or not, the world is faced with exceptional case, dear.

occupation

hurriedly and for no clear rea- modern Japan, a of

son, to remake one of the most in war but with tremendous pos ceding it.

That meant that there was to Japan. This is by Miss civilised ruces the earth to its sibilities of revival which it is be no international control until Honor Tracy, who spent eight bizarre pattern must be, for the there was agreement not to use months recently in Japan as onlooker, a highly diverting one. atomic weapons and all existing

a correspondent of "The Ob- But for a people like the bombs had been destroyed.

In other words, there was to server.' be no consideration of Inter- The first thing to say about

Thus, by

very

book

memory as worke

became

that before her visit to Japan she

Special Correspondent

Jo-

panese, profoundly aware of its

even

already demonstrating.

This generation has feit the dangers of great industrial and military power linked with a spielt such as Japan has shown in the past four decades. The victor powers simply could not afford to stand by and let anew Japan grow up of the same nature at the Japon which was defeated in 1945-or of a still more aggres sive nature, just as the Germany' of Hitler was worse than the Germany of the Hohenzollerns.

asked for faks on peace, or anthropoles have produced a

On the

partition in immensely aggravated India's major problem: the feeding of her swiftly increased population. The loss of the large area of arable and fer- tile land in Pakistan was at first balanced by huge im- ports of food from abroad, which entailed a. colossal drain on the country's finances, especially on the hard currency. The Indian Government meanwhile drew up a programme of increased production designed to win "(reedom from foreign bread," and attain self- sufficiency in food grains by national_control until the one this book is that it is extremely By "Windrush”, the end of 1951. A Commis-step had been taken which would well writen. Really distinguish- sioner for Food Production leave Russia with the most power-ed writing on political subjects | It is unhappily true was appointed, and vested ful military machine in the world. is rare.

Now let us consider the kind that of all the many political with wide executive powers, of international control Russia books which have appeared since and machinery was set up to had in mind. It was to work, you the war, or indeed since the

remember, co-ordinate

first under the con- ponable-which the production will

trol of the Security Council," and

was about plans of all States.

it is in the Security Council that 1930-hardly any remain in the own worth and accomplishment, Occupation problem The battle оп

of literature. the food the veto opercising her veto, They may have been useful or to be used as the guinea-pig in) front has so far gone well.

59 frivolous and uncalled for an How was tals to be provented? The target for additional Russia could stop any Investiga- informantive or provocative. But experiment, must have been

That was the problem for the the current tions of which she did not

have scarcely been a plea-cruel humiliation. It is possible. Occupation -just as it is for the ap- they production in year was just under a million prove or, where she approved of sure to read,

that they will har- Allied Occupation in Germany, Miss Tracy writes her investigations, she could stop any tons, and 95 per cent of the action against a revealed offender tences and paragraphs with such the carefree missionaries of GHQ egregiously. But they did re- sen-bour resentment longer against The Americans may have fallet target has been attained. In if she so desired.

polish that to read them is to than against the men who drop-cognise that there was a problem The Working Committee which have the same pleasure as the concerted drive itself, em-

inped the atomic bomb on Hiro while Miss Tracy is inclined to Angering 2 very fine andhima after their Government deny that it exists. The Americar phasis was placed on the food the United Nations set up to con-

sider both plans seized on this intricate surface. It would be had production-programme, on "grave aspect"

psychiatrists and of the Soviet Plan quite possible to send her book against the troops in the Pacific Increasing the yield by inten-

enthralled, even if one were not whose atrocities, though not so vart literature on contempory sive cultivation and better

at all interested in Japan or in widely advertised, bore compari-Japan most of which is very dull as grow-more-food campaign, the problems of military occupa-son with their own.

and some of which farming methods-such

is absurd. Her book a skilful series of B:11 they have addressed them- production and distribution and in these progress has n

This must be said in praise of vigneties, each of which makes selves to the really vital questions of improved seeds, the use of been

satisfactory. the book. Many people will find

some aspect

of the American about Japan-even if their an- fertilisers, plant protection, Additional production through the judgments it makes less to

and swers are inadequate. occupation look ludicrous, taste. Mita Tracy says makes the Americun officials ap- Miss Tracy did not ask thesd minor irrigation and land irrigation schemes is estimat- their

ed at 430,000 tons this year had already a passion for the

repellent. pear improvement works.

first questions at all. Instead, she has It was found that mechan- 163 per cent above the pre- country, caused partly by red page she begins with the Pro-produced a book which in her own

'testant missionaries.

words is a "modest little assort- ised reclamation was a pay-vious year. Many new wells ing Arthur Waley's translations With no knowledge of ment of Impressions." They are

Its literature.

very brilliant impressions. But ing proposition, in that the have been constructed and old of

"To arrive at last in a coun-language, any thought, any coun-

her book has to be accepted as: try but their expenses incurred were ones repaired, and there has try which for some reason has paration, indeed, of any kind, collection of traveller's toles,ra-

own, with no pre- coverable within a reasonable been a phenomenal increase always appeared, from a

long

ther than as a political treatise. they were

going to spill out over Miss Tracy would be the first to time.

International in minor irrigation projects, way off, mysterious and fascinat- The

Japan, bringing to this ancient Bank sanctioned a loan of such as dams, channels, tube ing, is a delicate

cate matter."

and complex civilisation the sim-gree. Japan, In its present even in 19

bother $10,000,000 for the purchase wells, etc.

tner- | ple interpretation placed upon of 374 new heavy reclamation For three years after 1946 ed state, came up to her hopes Holy Writ by their local com-

and expectations. She likes munities or sects." tractors for the reclamation India remained free from the Japanese civilisation. And to of weed-infested but fertile locust menace, but in May say that she finds the civilisation Ridiculous enterprises lands in certain States. Some last year, locusts came in of its American conquerors dis- tasteful would be an under- of these have been at work from the lands to the west.

statement. for some time. This scheme Breeding was controlled with

Bitter, criticism of the Central Government the co-operation of the de-l

Miss Tracy's bine against the aims to reclaim three million fence forces, and the States American occupation is summa acres in seven years, adding were advised by a committee up in the following bitter san- another million tons of food of experts on how to grains to the annual produc- strengthen their anti-locust

anticipated, some 800,000 tion work also included the acres will be reclaimed, pro- spraying of fields and prohibi- ducing another 300,000 tons tion of summer sowings of

Lake Success, August 19. of food grains. More than wheat and barley as a mea- Britain has told the United half the new land is being sure of wheat rust control. Nations' General Assembly's ngents provocateuThey were mechanically cultivated, and Well over 54,000 tons of im- special 16-nation Watch-dog progress in this direction proved seeds were distributed committee" which examines

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the world' would have been even greater this year, but more is needed information

colonial territories-that she is but for delay in the arrival of and greater attention is tractors from abroad.

being paid to seed multiplica- now willing to take part fully antics of the Occupation force. A

Ila work. The Central Government is tion activities, Seventy per (Previously Britain had strong-| in Javan is of cour simply talu Importing fertiliser and dis- cent of the additional produc-ly opposed the committee's con-ous. But where h book is un- satisfactory in that It.nover really tributing it to the various tion from the scheme operat-ception of its powers).

Mr. John Fletcher-Cooke, Brl- admits that there is a Japenese State Governments on a "no-ed during the current year tish representative, told the com- problem. proft-no-loss" baals. The will be of a permanent nature mitee yesterday that Britain Miss Tracy went off to the Japa- entire local production of and will yield benefits which would co-operate with it. Eut, he nese countryside to Old Japan was still unable to outside the range of Westernisa- superphosphate was also pur-will continue for a number added, she chased by Government. and of years beyond 1951. The accept the view that the charter tion and found it ravishing. Her gave the United Nations any conclusion seems to be that al sold on the same basis to stability and prosperity of right to supervise the administra- the suffering which Japan has State Governments. This India are vital to the future tios of non-self-governing ter brought on the world was due to year well over 300,000 tons of not only of that country but ritories, or to make metropolitan the Wert having transformed the ancient Japanese elvflisation, and powers accountable for them. chemical and other fertilisers of Asia and to no small extent Mr. Fletcher-Cooke said that caused Janon to, become an were so distributed, while also of the Commonwealth. Britain's attitude to any com Imiltation Western power. If only supplies of compost. also The food problem is basic, and mitteo action would be subject Old Japan, could have been left greatly increased.

It is being tackled with to this reservation which cu undisturbed, she seems to say, all

bodies

principle, to which m. would have been well. Irrigation schemes have efficiency and every promiss government attaches the greatert! been the main plank of the of muccess.

Importance Terjater, a

rt-

tion. By the end of 1951 it is organisations. Plant protec- Britain's change

in

A

of mind

any

Miss Tracy describes ninat of the officials of SCAP In the samno way. They are either engaged in ridiculous enterprises-muking documentary films to inculcate "respect for morons," finding far- fetched explanations in psychiatry for Japanese behaviour, Imposing all the forms of democracy with- out any regard to their suitability, or else, according to her picture. they are simply out for good living. Her special dislike is for!

nowballathe American milltary police. "Where the Army found these louts, builles, and It would bo Interesting to knew loathed by everyone."

It might be hard to find any unexact statements in all Mist Tracy's witty accounts of the

great deal of what has been dona

But Old Japan exists today only in -very- out-of-the-way parts of

Spokesmen for the UN. forces say emphatically: "To flee ΟΣ not to flee, there is no question."

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"You look pretty awful today," said to a chap yesterday on my way to the office.

"Yes," he sighed, "It's mourning after."

"We can't play at soldiers till thay

Korean

Kettle this campaign!"

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